Near-Earth Object Impact News

• Space Station
  NASA
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Space Exploration
  Space Missions
  Astronomy
   
  

  NASA's Asteroid Initiative: Robotically Capture Small Near-Earth Asteroid and Explore It

  April 11, 2013 — NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and ... > full story
• Near-Earth Object Impacts
  Dinosaurs
  Extinction
  Early Climate
  Geology
  Nature
   
  

  A Comet, Not an Asteroid, May Have Killed the Dinosaurs, Experts Propose

  April 4, 2013 — In a geological moment about 66 million years ago, something killed off almost all the dinosaurs and some 70 percent of all other species living on Earth. Only those dinosaurs related to birds appear ... > full story
• Origin of Life
  Geochemistry
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
  Earth Science
  Geology
  Environmental Issues
   
  

  Origin of Life: Power Behind Primordial Soup Discovered

  April 4, 2013 — Researchers may have solved a key puzzle about how objects from space could have kindled life on ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
  Space Telescopes
  Astronomy
  Stars
  Satellites
  Kuiper Belt
   
  

  Astronomers Anticipate 100 Billion Earth-Like Planets

  April 3, 2013 — Researchers have proposed a new method for finding Earth-like planets and they anticipate that the number will be in the order of 100 billion. The strategy uses a technique called gravitational ... > full story
• Moon
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
  NASA
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Astronomy
   
  

  Craters on the Moon: Pre-Existing Mineralogy May Survive Lunar Impacts

  April 2, 2013 — Large impacts on the Moon can form wide craters and turn surface rock liquid. Geophysicists once assumed that liquid rock would be homogenous when it cooled. Now researchers have found evidence that ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
  Earth Science
  Atmosphere
  Geology
  Environmental Issues
   
  

  New Evidence Ancient Asteroid Caused Global Firestorm on Earth

  March 27, 2013 — A new look at conditions after a Manhattan-sized asteroid slammed into a region of Mexico in the dinosaur days indicates the event could have triggered a global firestorm that would have burned every ... > full story
• Moon
  NASA
  Solar System
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
  Pluto
   
  

  Moon and Asteroids Share History, NASA Scientists Find

  March 25, 2013 — NASA and international researchers have discovered that Earth's moon has more in common than previously thought with large asteroids roaming our solar ... > full story
• Space Missions
  Moon
  Space Exploration
  NASA
  Space Probes
  Astronomy
   
  

  NASA's LRO Sees GRAIL's Explosive Farewell

  March 19, 2013 — Many spacecraft just fade away, drifting silently through space after their mission is over, but not GRAIL. NASA's twin GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) spacecraft went out in a blaze ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Missions
  Moon
  Astronomy
   
  

  Goldstone Radar Snags Images of Asteroid 2013 ET

  March 19, 2013 — A sequence of radar images of asteroid 2013 ET was obtained on March 10, 2013, by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., when the asteroid was ... > full story
• Moon
  NASA
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
  Solar System
  Cosmic Rays
   
  

  Leaping Lunar Dust: Electrically Charged Dust Near Shadowed Craters Can Get Lofted Above Moon's Surface

  March 18, 2013 — Electrically charged lunar dust near shadowed craters can get lofted above the surface and jump over the shadowed region, bouncing back and forth between sunlit areas on opposite sides, according to ... > full story

Search ScienceDaily